![]() ![]() The Joker then walks onto camera and announces he will kill Claridge at midnight.īruce leaves the party and as Batman meets up with Gordon at Arkham Asylum. She suddenly begins laughing and soon dies with a face similar to the corpses. ![]() On a TV in the next room, a reporter is overheard announcing that Arkham Asylum is being reopened. Next, Bruce Wayne is seen at a social event talking to fellow millionaire Henry Claridge. Batman appears and pledges to find the killer. The story has been reprinted, in both hard and softcover, with Detective Comics #784–786-a storyline entitled "Made of Wood" (pairing Batman with the Green Lantern, Alan Scott) also written by Brubaker with art by Patrick Zircher.Ĭaptain James Gordon and other officers are investigating a building filled with disfigured corpses they have chalk-white skin, green hair, red lips, and rictus grins. The title is a reference to Victor Hugo's novel The Man Who Laughs, whose main character was one of the original inspirations for the Joker. ![]() ![]() The plot is based on the Joker's original introduction in Batman #1 (1940). It tells the story of Batman's first encounter with the Joker in post- Zero Hour continuity. Batman: The Man Who Laughs is a one-shot prestige format comic book by Ed Brubaker and Doug Mahnke, released in February 2005, and intended as a successor to Batman: Year One. ![]()
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